A dynamic Hotelling monopoly model is proposed, with the purpose of characterising the effects of informative and persuasive advertising in a regime of partial market coverage. The two models are solved to show the emergence of a unique saddle-point steady-state equilibrium in both cases. Then,...

We take a game theory approach to study the make-or-buy decisions of firms in a mixed duopoly. We assume that a managerial firm and a profit-oriented firm compete in a duopoly market for a final good, and they can choose whether making an intermediate input or buying it from a monopolistic...

Profit-seeking firms can be induced to internalise the environmental damages caused by production via several policy instruments, a widely used one being emission permits. In a very influential paper, Laffont and Tirole (J Public Econ 62:127–140, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">1996</CitationRef>) point out that the allocation of...</citationref>